8825/8830 DDS User Guide/96
Job Accounting – Setup and Administration
(continued)
Users are charged for the
area of media used, rather than the linear length
used. On the display, the usage is reported in
square feet if INCHES has
been set in the menu under CONFIGURATION/ LOCALIZATION/ DISPLAY
UNITS, and in
square metres if MILLIMETERS has been set. Internally, the
usage figures are always stored on the internal hard disk expressed in
square decimetres. Usage figures written to a floppy disk are also
expressed in square decimetres.
Separate usage figures are compiled for Bond, Vellum (Tracing Paper),
Film, and Scanned (scan-to-network) usage.
Plot nested jobs, that is, jobs that print multiple images arranged on a sheet
of media, are charged for the calculated area that the images themselves
consume. The surrounding white space area is charged to a special system
account.
Setting the job accounting mode
Note: setting the job accounting mode from the DDS User Interface affects
job accounting only for jobs arriving from the Scanner, that is, scan jobs
and copy jobs. It has no effect on jobs arriving through one of the
communications ports on the Controller. Such jobs are known as “remote
print jobs.”
Job accounting for remote print jobs is controlled separately through the
Printer Control Panel. Refer to the 8825/8830 Job Accounting Administrator
Guide for full details.
The job accounting mode may be set on the DDS User Interface to one of
the following states:
•
Disabled (factory default). In this mode, jobs are allowed without entry of
any job account code. Total usage of each type of media is still accrued
in System Account 0.1 and in system subaccount 0.3. Total usage by
scan jobs (scan-to-net) is tracked in system subaccount 0.1.
•
Enabled. In this mode, copy jobs, scan jobs, and remote print jobs must
all have a valid account code entered, or the job is discarded and not
printed. The usage of each operator is tracked under that operator’s
account.subaccount number. Total usage is also accumulated in the
system subaccounts, as shown in the Account Definitions table above.
•
Optional. In this mode, operators may optionally enter a valid job
account.subaccount number for a job; such jobs will be tracked just as
they are when Job Accounting is enabled. Jobs without valid job
account numbers are accepted and printed. Their use is tracked just as
if job accounting were disabled.
